Play Time - Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama

An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experience time differently.

List of contents

Introduction: what God was doing before he created the world
1 The old man and the pregnant virgin: linear time and Jewish conversion in the N-Town plays
2 Grave new world: fantasies of supersession and explosive questions in the York and Chester Flood plays
3 Time out of joint: queering the Nativity in the Towneley Second Shepherds' Play
4 Passion meets Passover: temporal origami in the Towneley Herod the Great
5 Conclusion: the spectator's God's-eye view
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Daisy Black is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton

Product details

• Authors: Daisy Black, Daisy (Lecturer in English) Black
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781526146861
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4686-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Classic and pre-20th century plays, DRAMA / Medieval